[Livia]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

There could be evidence, just not enough to secure a conviction. IMO the parents are quite lucky that it happened in Portugal where the dogs aren't good enough to be used as primary evidence..given that someone has just been done in our country despite no body and basically nothing but what the dogs found.

Also its quite interesting that generally the people who think the parents are totally innocent tend to have not read very much into the case. I'm not talking conspiracy websites, I mean the 13k pages of police files that are there for everyone to see. The same police files that SY have been scouring for years...and that lead them to this dig.

There may be no evidence as such of the parents involvement. But there is also no evidence of an abduction.

It seems our police are working along the same lines now as the original investigation was. Honestly..they are looking for a body (or evidence that a body was there) right next to the hotel. What kind of burglar (lets forget that the burglar took nothing 'valuable'..) accidentally or purposely kills a child, decides to take the body, wanders around PDL with her, then buries her right next to where he killed her. It just makes NO sense at all. Lets forget again that this burglar/abductor left no traces of dna/fingerprints/anything while carrying out this amazing stunt.

I don't actually understand how people can't find this strange?

The parents are lucky it happened in Portugal? Lucky?

I'd be interested to know how you reached your conclusion that, if evidence is found, there won't be enough to convict. That's an amazing piece of foresight that even police and lawyers don't even possess. And it's the kind of wild claim I read in this thread on a regular basis.

The parents are innocent until they are proven guilty. That's the rule. So I'm astounded that there's so much opposition to another search. Surely anything that could throw some light on what happened should be encouraged? But no... everyone on here knows much better it seems than the people involved in the case. Maybe TiBB should send a team out?

Removing something or someone from a premises without leaving fingerprints or DNA isn't a spectacular trick. It shows someone was careful, that is all.

The fact is that there is a section of this forum, and of the public, who think they know all about the case, more than the police and lawyers involved even. And you just don't. You can't pretend that you've read 13,000 pages of police files nor what evidence they may point to, nor even how to interpret the evidence that exists. You've read snippets, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The fact that people think they know more than the police, and this is a massive comspiricy to cover up for the McCanns, is a mixture of sad and hilarious.